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Catalog migration issue

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
April 16, 2018
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Hi Guys!

Hoping one of you clever bees might have an answer or two here

Here's the current scenario:

- I've successfully migration my lightroom catalog folders ( catalog 2) to an external hard drive

- Upon import of the catalog, I was following an adobe article & clicked the button to create a new catalog upon opening catalog 2 in lightroom from the new location on the external hard drive - this is now catalog 3.

- Thought everything looked ok, however a month on I realise some previews & edits are missing in (the new) catalog 3

- All previews & edits are still located in catalog 2

- There are new edits & photos in catalog 3 (what a mess!)

Any suggestions how to fix this please?

Should I import new photos & edits into Catalog 2 & re export?

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JP Hess

Inspiring

Glad to see that you moved to the appropriate forum. After you moved the catalog to the external hard drive, the easiest way to have started that catalog in that new location would have been to double-click on it in its new location. Then Lightroom would not have prompted you to create a new catalog. Since you just started Lightroom as you normally would, Lightroom looked for the catalog in its old location, and when it didn't find it that is why it prompted you for a new catalog. After you double-clicked once on the catalog in its new location, then you could start Lightroom in the normal manner because Lightroom would remember where the catalog is located. So I am wondering if perhaps this new catalog that you created is still on your internal hard drive.

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kimberleylondonAuthor

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Jim - is you couldn't help in the old forum, why are you commenting in this one. Thank you for your comments but shoulda/woulda/coulda is not helpful. Also, sorry you're incorrect, I did double click from the new location, an adobe specialist guided me to created a new catalog so this was done 100% correctly. The files ARE on an external hard drive - I have no idea why you are complicating this process so much.

JP Hess

Inspiring

Since you are using Lightroom Classic CC, I wanted to get you into the right forum. Okay, this will be my last comment. If your images are still in the same location they were in previously, and If you were simply to browse to the folder on the external hard drive where the catalog was moved to, you "should" be able to simply double-click on that catalog file, the one that ends in lrcat, and Lightroom should open that catalog and point to the same images that it pointed to before. I will now turn you over to DJ. Sorry to have frustrated you.

dj_paige

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- I've successfully migration my lightroom catalog folders ( catalog 2) to an external hard drive

Does this refer to the folders that contain the photos, or does this refer to the folders that contain the catalog files.

- Upon import of the catalog, I was following an adobe article & clicked the button to create a new catalog upon opening catalog 2 in lightroom from the new location on the external hard drive - this is now catalog 3.

I'm really confused by this. Catalog 1 is the original?? Catalog 2 is one with folders on a different drive? You don't need a new catalog to move folders to a different drive. Catalog 3 ... what is the purpose of importing a catalog here?

- There are new edits & photos in catalog 3 (what a mess!)

New edits? Not the old edits??

Can you go back to catalog 1 and start over? We can give detailed instructions on how to do this.

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kimberleylondonAuthor

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PS catalog 2 opens absolutely fine & appears to contain all of the previews & edits & access to all photos. HOWEVER, new photos & edits are situated in catalog 3.

Should I just migrate those to catalog 2? & get rid of 3? Or is there a reason why I should be working from 3 as an adobe specialist advised?

dj_paige

Legend

I think you want to use all of catalog 2, and then merge in the photos in catalog 3 that have new edits or are new photos, if those can be easily identified. So can you identify the photos in Catalog 3 that have new edits or are new photos?

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